RE: Image legality - but the image is Jaime's.......

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Original poster: "Randy & Lori" <rburney6-at-comcast-dot-net> 

All this huffing and puffing over an image; that for all you know the
kid got from the same place you did!  After all, his image doesn't have
"THE GEEK GROUP" stamped on it, and neither does the original!

Randy

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Subject: Image legality - but the image is Jaime's.......

Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi,

At 06:11 PM 3/6/2004, you wrote:

 >Hi All,
 >     As many of you know, the Geek Group avidly supports the
dissemination of
 >scientific and technical knowledge by all legitimate means. All
pictures,
 >texts, and diagrams on our web site are published with the permission
of the
 >author(s) and credits are posted to the extent possible.

But you cannot copyright what "others" have done, as "your" own:


"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in
fixed
form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the
msnip..........